YMCA EPPING Spring 2018

Try July

Congratulations to everyone who participated in our Try July Challenge by trying to attend the Gym as many times as possible during the month. Our ultimate winner was Alice with over 20 visits, but many other members won vouchers for attending 10 or more times in the month.

Father’s Day Challenge

This year we challenged our fathers to row as far as they could in 30 seconds. Congratulations to

everyone who attempted the challenge, especially those who had more than one go at it. But there

could only be two winners and they were Howard and Rex!

Women’s Health Week

YMCA Epping recently celebrated women’s health week by hosting two great events. The first one was discounted body scans by Tru Body Composition Analysers. Each participant had a full body scan for just $20 and then heard a talk on how to interpret their results. The second event was a fun and fast paced fitness session with our super trainer Kim. The class was a mixture of exercise types including step and HIIT. There was lots of fun and laughter as well as lucky door prizes!

New Fitness Equipment

Have you tried out our new gym equipment yet? Thanks to a shopping spree by our Fitness coordinator we now have new box jumps, weight plates, boxing gloves and pads, resistance bands, dumbells, kettle bells and slam balls!,

Keep Cups

YMCA Epping now has Keep Coffee Cups. You can now do your bit to look after the environment while enjoying a coffee. Just $12 with your first coffee free!

Fitness Consultations

Have you lost your motivation or just need a kick

start? If so book in for a one on one fitness

consultations. In these sessions one of our

trainers can give you tips and advice to help you

achieve your fitness goals and be summer ready!

Competitions

It has been a very busy competition session for YMCA Epping with our gymnasts taking part in over

12 competitions.

One of the most recent competitions was the WAG Level 3 & 4 Gala Competition at Sydney

Gymnastic and Aquatic Centre. All YMCA Epping gymnasts achieved a fantastic range of scores, with

some even receiving over 9.5/10! Over 240 gymnasts from across NSW took part, with competition

on all four apparatus – vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor.

Leading into the competition all our gymnasts worked very hard by practising mock competition

routines. And the results were testament to their hard work with all YMCA Epping gymnasts

qualifying for the State Championships to be held over the coming months.

Here are just a few more photos of our fabulous gymnasts!

Kindergym

In July YMCA Epping ran a Kindergym play date so that the littlest members of the Epping

community could have a taste of our

great Kindergym program. Jumping

castles balancing beams, trampolines

and the foam pit, were only the start

of all the exciting activities the little

ones had a chance to try out!

Kindergym is a movement based

learning experience for young

children. The program provides a safe

environment for children to develop

physical skills in a fun, exciting and

playful way, at their own pace!

Our Learn to Play (LTP) participants finished off the term with games week. This is a great

opportunity to have some serious fun to show off the skills learnt over the past months.

Don't forget that LTP will have a break for the school holidays but will be back on the courts on

Monday 15th October.

Basketball and Futsal Grand Finals

The YMCA Epping 2018 Winter Indoor Sports competitions finished recently with two very exciting grand final matches.

Get Rekt and the Titans recently played off for first place in the Basketball competition. It was a

great match with Get Rekt walking away with the basketball win!

In the futsal grand final Persian Gulf beat defending champions Expected Toulouse in a fast paced

and high scoring match.

Congratulations to all teams who participated in our winter competitions!

CEO Visit

During September, YMCA NSW’s new CEO Susannah Le Bron visited the centre. She took the opportunity to meet as many staff members as possible and even presented gymnastics coach Mitchell Fraser with his employee of the month award.

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Congratulations Jade Congratulations Jade on being appointed to the Programs

Coordinator role for Epping and St Ives. Jade has been a LTP,

School PE and Birthday Party coach at Epping for 3 ½ years.

She is qualified PE teacher and also has a degree in

psychology.

Jade will be looking after our Learn to Play and School PE

programs as well as our action packed YMCA birthday

parties. She is looking forward to working with her team to

build fun, inclusive and energetic activities across all

program areas.

Welcome Chloe This month we welcomed Chloe into the role of Gymnastics

Coordinator for Epping and St Ives. Chloe come to us with

over 8 years’ experience coaching different gym sports

including, higher level gymnastics, recreation, Kindergym,

Acrobatics and Trampoline.

Chloe has a Bachelor of PDHPE (Personal Development

Health and Physical Education) and a Masters of Health

Science. Chloe is also an ex national Level 10 Gymnast and

international Power Tumbler who now focuses on Crossfit

and national level dancing. Chloe is looking forward to

bringing some fresh ideas into the program for all levels.